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The KindleBerry Pi

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Re: The KindleBerry Pi

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I wonder if the screen is fast enough. I would love to work on an actual non-glowing screen.

Depends on what you want to do, and if you can override the clear-screen page blanking. As a benchmark, here's someone running a Playstation 1 emulator on an e-ink Nook: http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php?/topic/9877-psx-emul...

That's absurdly cool.

Re: The KindleBerry Pi

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I wonder if the screen is fast enough. I would love to work on an actual non-glowing screen.

In my experience tinkering around at home with my kindle a year or two ago, the eink display is fast enough that using Vim on it feels about the same as a noticeably slow but still usable ssh session. With a real keyboard attached, it is something that I could see myself using.

Re: The KindleBerry Pi

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I wonder if the screen is fast enough. I would love to work on an actual non-glowing screen.

Pixel Qi makes some sort of sunlight-readable display for netbooks: http://pixelqi.com/products

I hope these take off, because I also would love to not be staring into a lamp for hours per day.

Re: The KindleBerry Pi

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I wonder if the screen is fast enough. I would love to work on an actual non-glowing screen.

My first thought was the same - if it performs like the "page flip" on the Kindle, I'd jump off a high building within minutes. But I've no idea if most of that delay is down to the screen or some combination of processing power and/or conserving power.

The full-page flashing refresh on the Kindle is a software measure to get rid of the afterimage that would otherwise remain on the screen. Here's what it looks like when it's disabled: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQJGfU8fEUg

Re: The KindleBerry Pi

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post #15
post #2

I wonder if the screen is fast enough. I would love to work on an actual non-glowing screen.

Pixel Qi makes some sort of sunlight-readable display for netbooks: http://pixelqi.com/products I hope these take off, because I also would love to not be staring into a lamp for hours per day.

I wish they would, but Pixel's been offering those for years now and nothing's really come of it.

Re: The KindleBerry Pi

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I wonder if the screen is fast enough. I would love to work on an actual non-glowing screen.

Well, quite a few Unix editors might still have the necessary hacks for low-baud terminal connections, which probably help in this case, too.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

Re: The KindleBerry Pi

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I'd love to have a 24" or 30" USB-driven eInk screen or three for fairly static stuff like documentation. Running a terminal on an eInk display is probably less painful than repeatedly bashing your toes into a cinder block. Probably. An iPhone would probably make a far better portable screen. Cool hack, though.

Quick buy some Kindle DXs while you still can.

Re: The KindleBerry Pi

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I was hoping for a lower level hack, but it _is_ neat.

That said, I still have a couple of broken laptops here and want to check out if I can connect the lcd displays to my Raspberry Pi in the future. When I don't fail at basic googling skills to get past all the inverse projects (replacing a broken screen instead of reusing a working screen from a laptop).

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